On Sunday, May 31st, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, my co-editor-in-chief Keyaira Cameron heard about the Pittsburgh protests and decided to attend as a photographer. Here is a transcript of a conversation we had about the experience of documenting the protest as a photographer and her thoughts about the protest in…
Seniors Celebrate Graduation in Car Cruise Across District Neighborhoods
The Avonworth community gathered to celebrate the unconventional graduation of the seniors on the evening of Friday, June 5th. In place of typical graduation ceremonies was a car parade that involved about a 3rd of the graduating class. At the start of the procession, both the Avonworth administration and teachers of the senior class gave…
That was 2019-2020: All the Changes You Didn’t Expect in Your Lopes Life
Every school across the nation will have stories about the day in March when pandemic life shut down their regular routines for the rest of the year. For Avonworth, this was a very noticable change, but there a number of other ones too that are important parts of the story of 2019-2020. Here are a…
A day in the life- Quarantine Edition – Peyton Bauer, Sophomore
With the year coming to the end it is hard not to look at how this year has differed from others before. With the rise of Covid-19, school and other factors of daily life for a high school student have changed. So what does a normal day look like for a high school student look…
Day in the life of Keyaira: Quarantine Edition
Quarantine has served to be both a blessing and a curse for a variety of different variables. On one hand, I have become extremely more productive in working on video projects or finding more ways to exercise. On the other hand, my motivation for doing schoolwork or keeping myself busy has drastically lowered. I am…
A Day in the Life of a Sophomore: Quarantine Edition
As you could imagine, there is not much of anything to do during these odd times of quarantine. I haven’t been doing much of anything myself as a sophomore, however I have been trying to keep myself productive so I dont become anymore of a couch potato that I already am. This morning I had…
A Day of Procrastination, Video Games, & Depression Quesadillas (a Senior’s Quarantine)
Ever since Avonworth shut down and I no longer need to go to school, time just doesn’t make sense. Days meld into weeks, weeks meld into months, and here I am… graduating? It feels surreal. I honestly don’t remember when quarantine began. It feels like yesterday I was grabbing books from my locker, hoping that those…
A Day in My Life As a Senior: Quarantine Edition – May 20th
I expected a lot of things out of my senior year. To say I expected a global pandemic that would completely shut everything down and to never return to high school again after March 16th? That was not one of them. Needless to say, in the past few months, I have had to make some…
A Day In The Life: Quarantine Edition- Liz Johnson, Sophomore
Today, as we all know, we are working and doing school from home, so my day has changed a lot. I used to start school at 8:00 am. Now I get up at 8:30 am or 9:00 and get coffee or hot tea. I drink it more than normal now that I am at home…
A Day in the Life of an Avonworth Senior: Quarantine Edition
My alarm clock rings at 9:30 AM, sometimes I’m awake before that, other times I’m not. I call my boyfriend to wake up, right after my alarm goes off. It gives us some time to talk, since we haven’t been able to see each other due to COVID-19. After I call him, I set off…